And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O Israel,
the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and
you shall learn them and be careful to do them. The LORD our God
made a covenant with us in Horeb. Not with our fathers did the LORD
make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive
today. The LORD spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of
the midst of the fire, while I stood between the LORD and you at
that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD. For you were
afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up into the
mountain. He said:
“‘I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
“‘You shall have no other gods before me.
“‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness
of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth
beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow
down to them or serve them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous
God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the
third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing
steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my
commandments.
“‘You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for
the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
“‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God
commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but
the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall
not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male
servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of
your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that
your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and
the LORD your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and
an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God commanded you to
keep the Sabbath day.
“‘Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God
commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well
with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
“‘You shall not murder.
“‘And you shall not commit adultery.
“‘And you shall not steal.
“‘And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
“‘And you shall not covet your neighbor's wife. And you shall not
desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or
his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your
neighbor's.’
“These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly at the mountain
out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness,
with a loud voice; and he added no more. And he wrote them on two
tablets of stone and gave them to me. And as soon as you heard the
voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was
burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your
tribes, and your elders. And you said, ‘Behold, the LORD our God
has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice
out of the midst of the fire. This day we have seen God speak with
man, and man still live. Now therefore why should we die? For this
great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of the LORD our
God any more, we shall die. For who is there of all flesh, that has
heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire
as we have, and has still lived? Go near and hear all that the LORD
our God will say, and speak to us all that the LORD our God will
speak to you, and we will hear and do it.’
“And the LORD heard your words, when you spoke to me. And the
LORD said to me, ‘I have heard the words of this people, which they
have spoken to you. They are right in all that they have spoken. Oh
that they had such a heart as this always, to fear me and to keep
all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their
descendants forever! Go and say to them, “Return to your tents.”
But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you the whole
commandment and the statutes and the rules that you shall teach
them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to
possess.’ You shall be careful therefore to do as the LORD your God
has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to
the left. You shall walk in all the way that the LORD your God has
commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you,
and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess.
